at the 2019 Bangalore Literature Festival. Awards and recognition His essay, "Prehistory of Community Forestry in India", was awarded the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for 2001. A Corner of a Foreign Field was awarded the Daily Telegraph Cricket Society Book of the Year prize for 2002. He won the R. K. Narayan Prize at the Chennai Book Fair in 2003. The US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008. In the poll that followed, Guha was placed 44th. Padma Bhushan in 2009, India's third highest civilian award. 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for India after Gandhi. In 2014, Guha was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities by Yale University Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, 2015 The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha. Bibliography An Indian cricket century (Editor, works of Sujit Mukherjee, 2002) See also List of Indian writers Notes References External links Ramachandra Guha's website 1958 births Living people Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English Indian male essayists 20th-century Indian historians Scholars from Dehradun The Doon School alumni Green thinkers Delhi School of Economics alumni St. Stephen's College, Delhi alumni Indian Tamil people Indian Institute of Management Calcutta alumni Cricket historians and writers Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science 20th-century Indian essayists 21st-century Indian historians